Cohousing-L Mailing List: envy and shoulders

[Judy (BAXTER]

Robyn Williams,Pinakarri Community Inc. (Australia)
wrote:   7-OCT-1996

<Five years down the track and we've covered alot of ground, but the
emotional resources of our intentional community, co-housing style,
equity/non-equity co-op are stretched to the max.  These are high stress
times - design issues, funding issues, personal issues, space issues combine
with our fears, expectations, workloads >
 
What can we say ?  It does get better, and I still think CoHousing is where I
want  to be.  And it's a stretch. Someone (I think it was Zev Paiss) said, a
while ago, some variation on "Cohousing is the most expensive 5 year growth
experience of your life."  The commonalities of experience are there.   Rob
Sandelin posted the top 10 issues a while back, and gosh darn it, we had been
dealing with all of them.  Maybe he'll post them again (hint, hint).

Judy Baxter, Monterey Cohousing Community,(MoCoCo) Twin Cities Area, Mpls.,MN
-- e-mail:      baxter [at] epivax.epi.umn.edu
-- Resident of the "mansion"- the 1st 8 homes in a rehab Georgian building built
as a retirment home in 1924 - 
-- 7 new townhouses (additions to the community) are done! - and occupied, one
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is for sale (rented through May),  - 3 BR, 2 car tuck under garage, 
        $145,000 
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